...remained perfectly composed, and uttered not a word indicative of impatience or resentment. " As a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." When he was bewailed by the daughters of Jerusalem, as he ascended the hill of Calvary, bearing his cross, he requested...

...and of patience." But Jesus " suffered for us, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps. When he was reviled, he reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not ; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously." And as in him we see what...

...patient confidence in God;—" He was brought " as a lamb to the slaughter," innocent and unresisting ; " when He was reviled, He reviled not " again; when He suffered, He threatened not; " but committed Himself to Him that judgeth " righteously." (1 Peter ii. 23.) Observe...

...reproof of vicious men, may be profitably compared with his meekness and quietness in suffering. " When he was reviled, he reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not."1 He bore the contradiction of sinners and the taunts of his opposers, with immoveable...

...men: How should I cry • out, "O Ihe patience of Christ!" The apostle tells us, 1 Pet. 2:23. that " s called, Heb. 2:3. A great salvation, which at the threatened uo(, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously." — I have already given you...

...insult, and injury which they heaped upon Him, without a murmur or complaint. As St. Peter observes, When He was reviled, He reviled not again ; when He suffered, He threatened not ; but committed Himself to Him thatjudgeth righteously. In which He hath left us an...

...maintained and vindicated, and his people to be redeemed by the blood of his covenant : therefore, when he was reviled, he reviled not again ; when he suffered, he reproached not ; but committed himself to Him that judgeth righteously ; and went as a lamb to the...

...never resented the violence of his enemies : " When he was reviled, he reviled not again." " He was led as a lamb to the slaughter ; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." There was indeed one instance in which " he opened his mouth :" arraigned before the high-priest,...

...through the indwelling of the patience of Christ, who, " when he was reviled, reviled not again, but was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as the sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." You may provoke love, but it is not easy : you may wear out the long-suffering patience...

...! And, when he could do nothing more for them on earth, he surrendered himself to his enemies, was led as a lamb to the slaughter ; and, as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. He submitted to be fettered, to be scourged, to be spit upon, to be buffeted, to be crucified....